Trunk-lock.



Patented Aug. I, 1899.

B. BERNSTEiN.

T R U N K LUC K.

Application filed July 7, 1898. ,1

2 Sheets-Sheet l.

(No Modem Patented Aug. i, i899.

B. BERNSTEIN.'

TRUNK LOCK.

ypplcaton filed July 7, 1898.)

(No Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.l

WITNESSES:

' ATTGRNEY UNiTED STATES d l'irrrzrrrv OrinoV BENNY BERNSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,763, dated August l, 1899.

Application filed J'uly f7, 1898. Serial No. 685,336. (No model-) T0 @ZZ whom, t 11T/Cty concern:

Beit known that I, BENNY BERNSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of 4the city ot' New York,in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Hasp-Locks for Trunks and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

My improved hasp-lock is constructed, as usual, with a rotary bolt to be operated bya key in unlocking; but in order to adapt it to lock automatically I construct the keeper, which is located in the body of the trunk, with an annular rotating plate, which as the T-head of the rotary bolt enters is turned backward in opposition to the pressure of a spring` and when restored to its original position by the action of the spring engages the T-head of the rotary bolt. In unlocking, the rotary bolt is turned backward by a key in customary manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a hasp-lock and keeper illus-` trating my invention, showing the hasp-lock retracted and raised. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same parts, showing in section the meeting parts of the body and cover of a trunk. Figs. 3 and 4 are rear or inside views of the keeper, rotating annular plate, and lock-bolt, Fig. 3 showing the rotary lock-bolt ready to be pressed into engagement with the rotating annular plate, and Fig. 4 showing the parts locked. Fig. 5v is a longitudinal section of the keeper and rotating annular plate. Fig. 6 is an inside face View of the rotating annular plate shown in Figs. l and 5, but with its casing removed. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the hasp-lock shown in Figs. l and 2. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the members thereof separated. Fig. 8 is a perspective viewof the inner face of the rotary lock-plate shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 9 is an inner face view of the operating parts of the lock assembled. Fig. l0 is a perspective view of the separate members of the keeper shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6. f

B may represent part of the body, and C part of the cover, of atrunk.

H represents the hinged hasp of the trunk, L the lock thereon, and K the keeper on the trunk-body B for the reception of the lockbolt. Y

1 is a rotary lock-bolt having a T-head spring 5, which lies in an annular groove 6 in the base of the rotating annular plate, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the extremities of the wire spring being turned in opposite directions, so that one end 7 engages in an aperture 7, prepared for it in the rotating annular plate 2, and the other end 8 in a similar aperture 8a. in the fixed keeper-casing K. The vibratory movement of the annular plate 2 is limited bya stud l0 thereon projecting into a notch 1l in the lined socket-flange or base-plate K2. (See Figs.`5 and `1Q.) The casing K and the fixed socket-flange K2 may be fixed together with rivets or with screws, as shown in Figs. 5 andlO.

From this description it will be clear that in closing the trunk-hasp the lugs 4 of the rotary lock-bolt l being themselves suitably beveledV on their engaging faces, as shown, will come into contact with the inclined or beveled -lips 3 of the rotating annular plate 2 and on the application of pressure to close the hasp will turn the said annular plate backward against the tension of the spring 5, and when the hasp is completely closed the spring will restore the annular plate to its advanced limproved spring annular platepis adapted.

The key X in the iirst part of its rotation retracts the lumblers Tagainst thepressure of their springs S, so. as to releasethe lug'l? of the rotary lock-platel L', which carries the tubular lock-stem l' and is turned by the rotation of the key as far as permitted` by the lug Z2, workin g in the concentric slot Fin fixed IOO plate L3, thereby withdrawing the lugs 4 from the annular plate.

It will be understood from the above description that it is thepurpose of my invention to provide a hasp-lock for trunks and like articles which will be adapted to engage or lock automatically when the hasp is pressed shut by a relative rotary movement between the T-head of the bolt and the rotating annular plate of its keeper.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I clailn as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A hasp-lock comprising a hasp, a keyoperated rotary bolt having a T-head and carried thereby, a keeper, a rotating annular plate, located within the keeper, having a spring controlling it and adapted to be turned backward against the pressure of the spring by the act of the insertion of the T-head and released to lock the latter, when the hasp and keeper are pressed together; substantially as described.

2. A hasp-lock comprising a keeper, a rotating annular plate, formed with beveled lips, and located within the keeper, a spring whereby the annular plate is turned forward, a hasp, a rotary bolt having a T-head, formed with lugs provided with beveled faces and carried by the hasp, and adapted to engage the beveled lips and to turn the annular plate backward against the pressure of thespring, the annular plate being released so as to lock the T-head when the hasp and keeper are pressed together; substantially as described.

BENNY BERNSTEIN.

Vitnesses:

WILLARD N. BAYLIs, OoTAvIUs KNIGHT. 

